With the State police suspecting suicide in the recent case of a nine-year old, who fell to her death from her school building, misgivings about the country’s education system and the lack of awareness of early signs of depression in a child have again surfaced.

According to the police, preliminary investigation revealed that the parents of the children had been asked to collect the report cards of their children the following day. “If a child is afraid of progress reports, what does it say about the curriculum? A school should help the child learn and have a mechanism to identify their difficulties and nurture all-round growth,” said educationist Prince Gajendra Babu.................Read more

Source: The New Indian Express